Penguins are so great that you could easily construct a top five of penguins. So easily that even though Blogger just et the first run round of this post, I am doing it again.
5: The Emperor Penguin
Looks like a butler, yadda yadda. Falls over when p[…]

Does it have a name?
This, you know, guitars and ties and actual high sales thing we’re drifting through at the moment? Is there a useful agreed name for it yet? If there isn’t, I think that’s quite interesting. What are its backers[…]

Further egg mystery from Ananova.[…]

C81 vs C86: a defense of the latter would surely (and appropriately) rest on r-ck-st criteria such as ‘coherence’ and ‘flow’. C81 feels like a tape a knowledgeable friend made for you at semi-random. C86 feels like a ‘re[…]

BLOCK BLOG
3: In The Midst Of Death
Like many a regular Freakytrigger feature, my chronological, collecting reviews of Lawrence Block’s Matt Scudder novels has recently dried a touch. Not completely due to my own crapness: for the more basic pr[…]

SATURN MOON HAS ATMOSPHERE…
…UNLIKE MOST WETHERSPOON’S PUBS
True in the comedy Russ Abbot sense of atmosphere and pleasingly also true in as much as if the Moon & Sixpence had an atmosphere of just ice particles the drinkers wo[…]

But OK for dawgs?[…]

MEERKATS LEAD TO MOCKERY
You know the rumbling swell of laughter, that starts with one influential person in the office, and then the scrawny middle manager, the one who goes RUNNING, you know the sort don’t you – well, she starts laughin[…]

Duck Season is a minimalist shoestring Mexican comedy, which barely scrapes through its ninety minutes running time with some judicious arty shots of MC’s housing projects at the start. The rest of the film stays firmly inside an apartment wher[…]

Book ’em
Scrapbooking is the purview of sad old ladies with too much time on their hand. Its too cute, too chaotic, too colourful. The fonts are all wrong. They try to hard. There are too many accessories. They try to do things like make pompon[…]